The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
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Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.
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The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Adequate indigent defense should be a top priority
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The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman - Hardcover
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The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-prairieland-sente…
From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
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